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HANK VANN - “THE 12:05 TO HELL” A previous Tamworth Star Maker Quest and Golden Guitar winner, Hank Vann has been twanging his 12-string and releasing CD’s of his biting, inimitable, original songs for quite some time. His brand spanking new EP is the sinister and disquieting “DEATH HEAD UKULELE”, a foreboding foursome of macabre melodies delving deeply into dark themes of supernatural visitation, murder most foul, pre-doomsday decay and brimstone belching locomotion. Now from that percolating collection of pre-apocalyptic pop comes the first single release; “THE 12:05 TO HELL”, a warning to those reckless souls in perpetual haste, who’d “try to beat the boom gates” for kicks and bravado, that, “you just won’t win”. Dick Dale-esque guitar slashes lacerate a backing of pseudo-surf shenanigans, accentuating the dangers of dicing with death. “A while back I watched in horror as a woman in a small car decided to outrun a rapidly descending trauma helicopter by driving over the helipad